Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor.
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A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
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An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.
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There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
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O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this for a truth: the thing thou seekest is already here, "here or nowhere," couldst thou only see.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.
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Consider in fact, a body of six hundred and fifty-eight miscellaneous persons, set to consult about "business," with twenty-seven millions, mostly fools, assiduously listening to them, and checking and criticising them. Was there ever, since the world began, will there ever be till the world end, any "business" accomplished in these circumstances?
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The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.
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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.
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We observe with confidence that the truly strong mind, view it as intellect or morality, or under any other aspect, is nowise the mind acquainted with its strength; that here the sign of health is unconsciousness.
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The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.
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Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.
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Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.
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In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great Men--genuine admiration, loyalty, adora-tion.
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A man's religion consists, not of the many things he is in doubt of and tries to believe, but of the few he is assured of and has no need of effort for believing.
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Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
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Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor.
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O Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry each a future Ghost within him; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!
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Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.